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Ikea do some brilliant wooden ones in black or white, absolutely perfect for 7" records, plus they are about an inch taller than a 45 so you can put them on top of each other, thus saving more space! And they have the cut out handles too. About £4 each.

Love your site Maverick! Glad to see you're keeping the Soul alive in the USA!

Can someone please tell me what the Marv Johnson version came out on? Is it an unissued track? It's certainly not on his only Motown l.p......

"....and there's great pains in my heart"

What do the others play Pete? Mine's deffo Jay D Bryant! Anyway, I digress, have you got a copy of Torpedo 26 Rupie Martin Allstars 'Musical Container' you want to sell?

Was only talking about this Leon Haywood track off the L.P the other day and played it to a mate the other night, we both agreed that's it's superb! Not on a 45 as far as I know.

Heard J.J Barnes unissued version of Vandellas - 'Show Me The Way' on there last night!

Some UK 45s actually come with the centres already professionaly dinked out, according to J.Manship these do NOT de-value the prices. There are several around on the Atlantic label, Stax, Liberty especially....I've had 5th Dimension 'Train Keep On Moving' on Liberty Uk with the centre done this way twice now. Anyone comments....

That's the kiddies! Thanks geeze. John

Great for the wall in the ol' record room! I see you said you're looking for 45 sleeves. Any idea where I can get those repro usa/uk 7" sleeves? You know the ones, Columbia, Island, Blue Beat, Imperial etc

Joe Phillips.....got one a few months back, great beat ballad....atmospheric etc. Sorry I can't post a sound file up though. Will try tomorrow.

If I didn't D.J then i'd probably only get them out on the odd occassion! It's the 'knowing' you have them and can give them a spin anytime you like that satisfies the soul! (sometimes)...plus the added bonus of telling your other soul collector mates..."look what I got".... Do I sound shallow??????

I heard the same CD in T K Maxx Saturday in King's Lynn, as you say, the other tracks were'nt Northern Soul. There's obviously a store CD going around and whoever compiled it thought they'd stick one on for us lot!!!

Nice one Mike , I see your point, should've mentioned about the circle and the darkness of the vinyl and it might have got over £2,000... Well done anyway. John

If I knew how to get a link for the one on Ebay i'd post it. That's exactly my reason for this thread, whoever sold that record for £1,668 hopefully knows what they are doing, as I said, in the description it does not mention anything about a stamped circle, just says it has the right matrix numbers, well even the boots have the right matrix numbers!! The seller also doesn't state that it's heavy, thick (unsee through) vinyl..... hope the winner's got a real one!

Two great breaks are in the middle of these... Eddie Holland - Outside Looking In (Motown) Robie Porter - That's The Way Love Goes - (MGM) (the break so epitomises Northern Soul!)

See John & The Wierdest (Tie) on Evilbay yesterday went for £1,668..... my question is, how can the buyer be 100% sure it's an original, I mean, the seller claims it has the matrix numbers T-101-A triangle68365....well, i'm sorry to say, so does my copy and I bought it twenty odd years ago for about £5 and was always under the impression mine's a boot. My copy looks absolutely identical in every way to the one sold. The thing that puzzles me is the seller does not mention the stamp that should be there...a circle with AR stamped inside it. My copy has this circle but it looks homemade if you know what I mean and yes, it is almost see through when I hold it up to a strong light (J.Manship's bootleg guide), again, something the seller fails to mention. Anyone else on here got a boot? What's the score?

As it was never issued over here in the UK during the 60's, i'd be inclined to say FIRST UK issue! Cracking tune, I love it! Never tire of hearing it.

Wanted .. Del-Satins 'Baby You're The Fire' (Villa) old boot-leg/pressing from the old days with Checkerboard Squares on the flip.

Some UK 45s do actually come with a US type large centre, lots of the red Atlantic's, Stax too, and i've had 5th Dimension's 'Train Keep On Moving' Liberty, twice with centre professionaly cut out. According to J.Manship, these UK 45's with professionaly removed centres are of the same value as those with full centre......any responses...

Wow! Thanks Dave / Soulmac! How great is this site?.....gonna get a copy now. John

Heard a great Northern tune by Mr. Barry White called ' I Don't Need It' ...can't find no reference to it anywhere, it's not on the flip of 'All In The Run...' or 'Tracey, All I Have'..... Someone suggested it was on an l.p only of his 60's stuff but can't recall.... Anyone help?

Think the backing is identical to the Precisions version. Unissued apart from a (Joe Boy?) Uk release a few years back. Don't know if there's an acetate though...

Great one! Mines on UK (Blue Bird)...1984